Edmund Burke Quotes - Page 13

• La belleza es la promesa de la felicidad.

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  Beauty, Promise

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• Inglaterra e Irlanda pueden florecer juntas. El mundo es lo suficientemente grande para ambos. Cuidemos de no hacernos demasiado pequeños para él.

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  History, Together, Littles

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.404, University of Chicago Press

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• Hay una especie de entusiasmo en todos los proyectistas, absolutamente necesario para sus asuntos, que los hace a prueba de los retrasos más fatigosos, de las decepciones más mortificantes, de los insultos más chocantes; y, lo que es más severo que todo, del juicio presuntuoso de los ignorantes sobre sus designios.

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  Decepción, Diseño, Juicio

  "The Works of Edmund Burke in Nine Volumes", Vol. IX, Boston: Little, Brown, 1839.

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• No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

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  Government, People, Principles

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• "War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

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  Paz, Guerra, Militar

  "A Vindication of Natural Society". Book by Edmund Burke, 1756.

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• Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

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  Men, Hands, Care

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.498

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• There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

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  Country, Lovely, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1814). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event”, p.79

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• Aún no he perdido la sensación de asombro y de placer de que el delicado movimiento resida en todas las cosas que nos rodean, revelándose sólo a quien lo busca.

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  Feelings, Looks, Delight

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• An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

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  Ideas, Solitude, Purpose

  Edmund Burke (2012). “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Pensé que diez mil espadas habrían saltado de sus vainas para vengar incluso una mirada que la amenazara con un insulto. Pero la edad de la caballerosidad ha pasado.

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  Edad, Apariencia, Desaparecido

  Edmund Burke (1826). "Las obras de Edmund Burke", p.149

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• De todas las cosas, la sabiduría es la más aterrorizada con el fanatismo epidémico, porque, de todos los enemigos, es aquel contra el que es menos capaz de proporcionar cualquier tipo de recurso.

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  Enemigo, Capaz, Amable

  Edmund Burke (2016). "Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)", p.1500, Delphi Classics.

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• Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.

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  Hombres, Mente, Doe

  Edmund Burke (1841). “Works”, p.332

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• The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

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  Rude, Benefits, Fierce

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.87, Transaction Publishers

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• Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.

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  America, Cost, Taxation

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• The ocean is an object of no small terror.

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  Ocean, Sailing, Nautical

  Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.230, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Nada debe sopesarse más que la naturaleza de los libros recomendados por la autoridad pública. Así recomendados, pronto forman el carácter de la época.

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  Libro, Personaje, Edad

  Edmund Burke (1804). "Máximas y opiniones, morales, políticas y económicas, con caracteres, de las obras de ... Edmund Burke", p.14

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• Una democracia perfecta es, por tanto, lo más desvergonzado del mundo.

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  Perfecto, Democracia, Mundo

  Reflexiones sobre la Revolución en Francia" (1790) p. 139

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• Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

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  Writing, One Direction, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1860). “The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir”, p.505

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• I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

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  Guerra, Larga, Gente

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Charge against Warren Hastings concluded”, p.189

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• All government is founded on compromise and banter.

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  Government, Compromise, Banter

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• There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

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  Men, Ability, Good Service

  Edmund Burke (1871). “The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke”, p.59

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• The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

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  Inspirational, Law, People

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.73

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• Falsehood is a perennial spring.

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  Spring, Liars, Lying

  Speech 'On American Taxation' 19 April 1774

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• La sociedad es, en efecto, un contrato. Es una asociación en toda ciencia; una asociación en todo arte; una asociación en toda virtud, y en toda perfección. Como los fines de tal sociedad no pueden obtenerse en muchas generaciones, se convierte en una sociedad no sólo entre los que viven, sino entre los que viven, los que han muerto y los que han de nacer.

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  Art, Perfection, Society

  Edmund Burke (1860). “The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir”, p.498

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• Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

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  Religious, Men, Animal

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 135.

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